LONDON and GENEVA and JERSEY, July 6 /PRNewswire/ --
- Technology Executive to Invest in the Internet, Telecom, Networking and Media
Industries
Index Ventures today announced that Mike Volpi, a renowned technology industry
veteran, joined the firm as a partner. Volpi is based in the London office as
part of the venture team where he will lead early stage investments in the
Internet, telecom/networking and media sectors and contribute to the firm's
later stage growth fund.
During his 13 year career at Cisco, Volpi acquired more than 75 companies and
served as Chief Strategy Officer responsible for corporate strategy, business
development, strategic alliances, and advanced Internet projects. Volpi then led
Cisco's billion dollar routing and service provider business.
LEXINGTON, Massachusetts, July 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ:
SHPGY), the global specialty biopharmaceutical company, announces that, at the
request of the FDA, in view of a potential restriction on the availability of
the current approved and marketed treatment for Gaucher Disease patients, it has
filed a treatment protocol for velaglucerase alfa, its enzyme replacement
therapy in development for the treatment of Gaucher Disease.
If approved by the FDA, the treatment protocol would allow physicians to treat
Gaucher Disease patients with velaglucerase alfa ahead of commercial
availability in the US.
LEIDEN, The Netherlands, July 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Three new small and medium sized
enterprises (SMEs) - Syncom, Synvolux Therapeutics and InteRNA Technologies -
have joined public-private partnership TI Pharma by participating in two new
projects. These projects, focusing on cancer and inflammatory diseases, have a
total budget of nearly 6 million euros.
The new consortium, formed by Syncom, Synvolux Therapeutics, and University
Medical Center Groningen, focuses on designing a versatile drug delivery system
for inflammatory diseases and cancer.
LONDON, July 6 /PRNewswire/ --
Healthcare in Europe is increasingly becoming digitised and there is growing
need to develop and deploy sophisticated information systems. However, the
wireless technology that is transforming various areas of business today is yet
to be fully explored by the healthcare industry to support quality maintenance
and improved efficiency.
Though New Orleans residents were told to evacuate days before the arrival of Hurricane Katrina, no one could have predicted the real extent of the devastation that would follow.
Researchers from Tel Aviv University say they may be ableto make just such a prediction in the future. They say a reliable way to help predict the intensity of the next big flood can use common cell phone towers across the United States. Their model, which analyzes cell phone signals, adds a critical component to weather forecasting never before available.
Scientists at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) say they have discovered that specialized complex sugar molecules (glycans) that anchor cells into place act as tumor suppressors in breast and prostate cancers.
Glycans play a critical role in cell adhesion in normal cells and their decrease or loss leads to increased cell migration by invasive cancer cells and metastasis but an increase in expression of the enzyme that produces these glycans, β3GnT1, resulted in a significant reduction in tumor activity.
If you were born at a time when social security numbers were not required, you can probably recognize other people from your home state if you see or hear their numbers. You may have thought there was a smarter system in place by now.
Not so, and it's actually easy to glean a social security number, say project lead Alessandro Acquisti, associate professor of information technology and public policy at Carnegie Mellon's H. John Heinz III College, and Ralph Gross, a post-doctoral researcher, who have shown that public information readily gleaned from governmental sources, commercial data bases, or online social networks can be used to routinely predict most — and sometimes all — of an individual's nine-digit Social Security number.
Parasites don't get a lot of respect these days but we may have to reconsider that. In spite of their nasty reputation, they may have given us the joy of sex.
What's so great about sex?
If you don't know, this article cannot help and even from an evolutionary perspective the answer is not as obvious as one might think.
Two studies published in Science Express show the analysis of gamma-rays from two dozen pulsars, including 16 discovered by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Fermi is the first spacecraft able to identify pulsars by their gamma-ray emissions alone.
A pulsar is the rapidly spinning and highly magnetized core left behind when a massive star explodes. Most of the currently cataloged pulsars, some 1800 of them, were found through their periodic radio emissions; pulses caused by narrow, lighthouse-like radio beams emanating from the pulsar's magnetic poles, according to current theory.
Why do some species have parents working together to raise young? In humans, it is the norm but in nature it is rare.
Birds, like humans, have offspring raised by two parents and bird biologists at the University of Bath want to know more about why. The study, published in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology, analyzed more than 50 previous studies of birds to understand why and how they share their parental duties.
